RYAN PITTS IS HARDLY A HOUSEHOLD NAME. HIS STORY IS A REMARKABLE ONE. IS 28 YEARS OLD, RETIRED ARMY STAFF SERGEANT, AND ONE OF THE NATION'S HIGHEST DECORATED VETERANS. HE WAS AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR LAST MONTH. PITTS WAS SERVING IN AFGHANISTAN SIX YEARS AGO WHEN HIS OBSERVATION POST CAME UNDER ATTACK FROM 200 TALIBAN FIGHTERS. PITTS AND HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS WERE BADLY OUTNUMBERED. THEY WERE HIT BY MACHINE-GUN FIRE AND ROCKET HELP ROLLED GRENADES. P ITTS HAD SHRAPNEL WOUNDS TO HIS ARMS AND LEGS. BUT HE CONTINUED TO RETURN FIRE, AND HE THREW GRENADES, HOLDING OFF THE ENEMY. REINFORCEMENTS FINALLY ARRIVED, BUT NOT BEFORE NINE OF PITTS' FELLOW SOLDIERS WERE DEAD. PITTS VISITED MILWAUKEE VETERANS. THEY THANKED PITTS FOR HIS SERVICE. PITTS THANK THE VETERANS WHO HAD COME BEFORE HIM. TUESDAY, ELECTION DAY. FEW OF US WILL GO TO THE POLLS THAT DAY, ONLY ABOUT 15% OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS ARE EXPECTED TO CAST A BALLOT. WE SAY WE ARE TOO BUSY, WE ARE NOT INTERESTED, WE ARE DISGUSTED, OR WE FORGET THERE IS AN ELECTION. VOTING ISN'T MANDATORY. WE ARE FREE TO DO WHATEVER WE WANT. BUT SOMEHOW, SAYING WE CAN'T FIND A FEW MINUTES TO EXERCISE OUR RIGHT TO VOTE OR WE DID NOT KNOW THERE WAS AN ELECTION SEEM LIKE AWFULLY WEAK EXCUSES, GIVEN THE SERVICE AND SACRIFICE OF RYAN PITTS AND THOUSANDS OF HIS FELLOW VETERANS. THEY DESERVE BETTER. THANKS FOR BEING WITH US TODAY. I'M MIKE GOUSHA, AND I WILL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK ON "UPFRONT." SEE TODAY'S PROGRAM ON OUR WEBSITE OR IT JUST CLICK ON THE